HAPPY EASTER!
My family is not religious as such, but since we have a six-year-old in the house we tend to indulge in the egg-hunting and chocolate-munching traditions of Easter Sunday. This year, though, my friend Anna has been staying with us for the weekend, and she brought some Easter fun with her. Today, we dyed and decorated eggs.
In Germany, where Anna is originally from, dyed and decorated eggs are used as Easter decorations (if they have been blown out) and also used as part of an Easter egg hunt and eaten (if they have been hard-boiled). The eggs are brightly coloured and provide a lively, springtime feel when dotted around the house and garden. It is also considerably more healthy than having lots of chocolate eggs!
Anyway, enough history, dyeing eggs is awesome fun, however old you are. Here’s how we did it.
First off, we hard-boiled ten eggs, since we felt a little too clumsy to blow them out. Then, we dyed the eggs a variety of colours using egg/food colouring and hot water:
Then came the fun bit. Myself, Anna and my little sister decorated the eggs as we saw fit – we used non-toxic pens for the eggs which were to be eaten, and a combination of the non-toxic pens and Sharpie markers for the eggs which nobody wanted to eat. We also had stickers:
I decorated two and Anna and my littlest sister decorated four eggs each:
When we’d finished, the eggs looked like this:
These were my efforts:
Then, it was time to eat! Since Gareth and Anna are the only people in the house at the moment who like hard-boiled eggs, they got to do the honours:
Best Easter ever!
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